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“If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.”

Ifs Needed Garden Roots Criticism Plant Developing Weed Shallow

Author:Allison Mackie

“Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.”

Men May Tree Sea Produce Garden Roots Mere Fruit Graves Eden Garden Of Eden

Author:Amelia B. Edwards

“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.”

Life Particular Grew Shapes Garden Roots Experts Stem Leafs Gardener Specialists Caterpillars

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.”

Looks Soul Done Prayer Pleasure Lord Practice Garden Roots Plant Setting Settings Soil Weed Majesty Beginners

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

“John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.”

People Used Language Flower Genius Garden Roots Spokes Meadows Cottages Surpassing

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

“Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.”

Needs Looks Use Lying Suffering Consciousness Roles Practice Mindfulness Garden Roots Plant Seeds Guides Who We Are Gardener Greatest Gifts

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”

Feels Littles Doe Stills Grows Rooms Common Taken Mines Garden Roots Plant Leaving Practicals Common Sense Caution

Book:The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.”

Should Book Hands Turns Enjoy Color Fit Pages Garden Roots Seasons Rose Sentences Stem Petals

Book:A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm

Source: A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.”

Knows Firsts Long Said Stills I Can Higher Garden Roots Rate Dear Deeper Height Soil Honour Merry Pippin Shire Dear Me

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.”

Hard Grows Garden Roots Weed Disturbing Worthiness

Book:The Running Dream

Source: The Running Dream

“Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.”

Wells Doe Earth Hate Nature Garden Roots Blame Spectacular Manure Fertilizer Compost

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.”

Bears Garden Roots Gardener Gloves

Book:A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

“Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.”

Heart Kind Garden Roots Fruit Deeds Caring Generosity Love And Kindness Kind Words Loving Kindness Kind Heart Kind Deeds Kind Thoughts

Author:John Ruskin

“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”

Christian Fall Heaven Wind Flower Garden Roots Hard Times Godly Dew

Book:Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin

Source: Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin

“Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream. One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument.”

Source: Country Sentiment

“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”

“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.”

Source: Season of Migration to the North